CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2020-15888

Lua through 5.4.0 mishandles the interaction between stack resizes and garbage collection, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, heap-based buffer over-read, or use-after-free.

6.8 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 6.4

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

8.8 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00054.html Exploit Mailing List
https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/6298903e35217ab69c279056f925fb72900ce0b7 Patch Third Party Advisory
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00079.html Exploit Mailing List
https://github.com/lua/lua/commit/eb41999461b6f428186c55abd95f4ce1a76217d5 Patch Third Party Advisory
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00071.html Exploit Mailing List
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2020-07/msg00053.html Exploit Mailing List
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:lua:lua:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2020-07-21 10:15

Updated : 2021-07-21 11:39

NVD link : CVE-2020-15888

Mitre link : CVE-2020-15888

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-125

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-416

CWE-787